Anniesland railway station

Anniesland Scottish Gaelic: Fearann Anna[1]
Looking north with a Class 156 sitting in the Maryhill Line terminal platform on the right
General information
Location	Anniesland, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8898°N 4.3217°W / 55.8898; -4.3217
Grid reference	NS548687
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	ANL
History
Original company	Stobcross Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
20 October 1874	Station opened as Great Western Road
9 January 1931	Station renamed Anniesland
Passengers
2019/20	1.145 million
2020/21	0.173 million
2021/22	0.565 million
2022/23	0.735 million
2023/24	0.936 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Anniesland railway station is a railway station that serves the Anniesland suburb of Glasgow, Scotland.

The station is served by ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network.

It is located on the Argyle Line, 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on the North Clyde Line 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line 6+1⁄4 miles (10.1 km) away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).

History

Originally called Great Western Road,^[2] the station was opened by the North British Railway in 1874 on their route linking the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Maryhill to Queens Dock (the site that is now occupied by the Scottish Exhibition Centre) on the north side of the River Clyde (the Stobcross Railway), it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.

The line towards Westerton (which was opened some years after the Maryhill line in 1886 as part of the Glasgow City and District Railway) was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to Jordanhill & Hyndland as part of the North Clyde Line modernisation scheme. The chord from Maryhill (which was part of the original Stobcross Railway route) remains diesel worked. This chord was closed completely in 1985 and lifted three years later (after being disused since 1980), but relaid and reopened in 2005 when the Maryhill Line was extended as part of the project to re-open the railway to Larkhall on the Argyle Line.

After the 2005 re-opening, there had been no physical link between the two routes here – the single line from Maryhill Park Junction terminated in its own separate bay platform (number 3) on the eastern side of the station and the two routes were under the control of different signalling centres. However, in late 2015, Network Rail carried out a programme of works to connect the Maryhill chord to the North Clyde Line, just north of Anniesland station.^[3] This was done to provide a diversionary route from the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line into Glasgow Queen Street Low Level while the High Level station was shut during 2016 for tunnel works; however, it is intended that the new connection be permanent.^[4]

In October 2024, new lifts were opened allowing the station to be accessed step-free.^[5]

Services

A Maryhill Line service

There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) on the North Clyde Line and to Glasgow Central (Low Level) on the Argyle Line.^[6]

Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are Balloch, Milngavie and Dalmuir (Mondays-Saturdays) and Helensburgh Central (Sundays) northwestbound and Whifflet, Motherwell, and Cumbernauld on the Argyle Line and Airdrie (Monday-Saturday daytimes) and Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line southeastbound. Argyle line arrivals are from Motherwell (hourly), Whifflet (hourly) and Larkhall.

There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) via Maryhill Monday to Saturdays.^[7]

Since a timetable revision on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service operates on the route via Maryhill.^[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		ScotRail Maryhill Line		Kelvindale
Hyndland		ScotRail Argyle Line		Westerton
Hyndland		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Westerton
	Historical railways
Partickhill		North British Railway Stobcross Railway		Maryhill
connection to Stobcross railway		North British Railway Glasgow City and District Railway		Westerton
Whiteinch Victoria Park		North British Railway Whiteinch Railway		connection to Stobcross railway
Scotstounhill		North British Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway		connection to Stobcross railway

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Transport, The Claythorn Story, Claythorn Community Council, https://claythorncc.wordpress.com/the-claythorn-story/
3. Service Alterations - Anniesland Station
4. Edinburgh to Glasgow works Rail Engineer (retrieved 29-01-2016)
5. "Train station becomes step free as accessibility project completed". Yahoo News. 5 October 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
6. Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016
7. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 232
8. GB WTT 13 December 2015 to 14 May 2016 Edition, Section GA12

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map